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the road leading to my house ... winter
same road in the fall
Family Home Place
my driveway leading down to my house
back of the property on the hill in fall
erinlough
(2,176 posts)The house is wonderful. Thanks.
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(56,912 posts)rurallib
(62,373 posts)or at least the same zipcode.
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(56,912 posts)Kali
(55,002 posts)what is the story on the old home place? in the same area? any family still there?
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(56,912 posts)the house is on my Mother's side of the family in Alabama and yes, family is still living there. It is listed on the Historical Register.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)Seriously.
Very nice.
Some history?
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(56,912 posts)This is further east ... close to the speedway. Forget what year it was built, need to ask Mom ....1880ish
oh, family is all War Eagle but, hey ... what do they know, right
trof
(54,256 posts)It looked a lot like your old home place.
A few years ago they sold it to the university for the stadium expansion.
It was torn down.
The Dekes relocated in a brand new ante-bellum styled house across the street from the old one.
When I was in college in the late 50s, early 60s, we could go on our roof and watch the football games.
IIRC, adult beverages were involved.
It's still a damn wonder nobody fell off the roof.
trof
(54,256 posts)Yeah, It's a mansion.
DKE is a very wealthy fraternity.
I share brotherhood with both Bushs.
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(56,912 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)The Undertaker's Ball was an annual event.
We were 'quirky'.
I remember them well.
We hired a mule drawn wagon with a NOLA jazz band on it and a coffin with a freshman 'new boy' pledge in it as the 'corpse'.
The whole fraternity turned out in white shirts, black pants, and black ties as mourners behind the flat bed wagon.
We paraded down Sorority Row, picking up our dates (who joined the cortege) as we moved along.
Maybe you had to be there.
it was pretty funny.
At least we thought so.
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20060429/NEWS/604290327?tc=ar
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)My parent's house in on the historical registry in CT. It was the "Town Poor Farm" where people would stay when they hit hard times. It was built in 1733, and sometimes when I was a kid tours would come through.
There's a stone wall enclosure with a gate across the street that was the "town pound" where animals that wandered away from their farms were put until their owners claimed them.
I have a beautiful picture of it in the snow--I'll try to post.
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(56,912 posts)RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)It's funny, because when we moved to the house it was out in the country which I had to get used to. Roosters crowing, it was kind of spooky (my sister swears it was haunted), drafty in the winter but we had 4 working fireplaces, radiaters hissing and the worst was the damn creaky floors when I was sneaking into the house trying not to wake my parents.
My taste is more contemporary, but now living in subdivison hell in GA on 1/3 of an acre, I kind of yearn for country living again, and appreciate how unique my old house is.
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(56,912 posts)I like to combine contemporary aesthetics in a country landscape...
Grateful for Hope
(39,320 posts)It's a shame you are "cleaning out" them.
Looking at them reminds me of how beautiful our planet is.